Benjamin palladino



(No Model.)

B. PALLADI-NO.

SAMPLE EXHIBITOR.

Patented Mar. 12,1895.

PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN PALLADINO, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

sAMPLE-EXHIBIT'OR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,551, dated March 12, 1895. Application filed December 11, 1894. Serial No. 531,467. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN PALLADINO, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county of New York, and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sample-Exhibitors, of which the following is a speoication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all tbetigures.

This invention relates to devices for exhibiting samples of cloth to illustrate the appearance of an individual in variously colored or graded garments, corresponding to a series of samples, and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap, readily constructed and perfectly operating device of this character.

The invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanyingdrawings: Figure lis a plan view of the frame of a sample exhibitor embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the transparent central portion thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse section upon the line .ac-. Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar section upon the line y-y Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of the device resting upon a piece of fabric. Fig. 6 is a section of the same upon the line z-z, Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a plan view of a portion of a modified form of device. Fig. 8 is a section thereof upon the line z-.e', Fig. 7.

In the practice of my invention I construct a thin plate or fratrie A, of card-board,paper, wood, or any other desired opaque material, cut out centrally as indicated by the line o in Fig. l to form an opening B, conforming in shape to an independent body C, adapted to fit within said opening, and formed in the shape of a gure clothed in garments. This body C is formed of a sheet of transparent material, such as pyrolin, and is surrounded by a peripheral integral ange b, downwardly and outwardly turned to engage the edges of the opening B `upon the undersurface of the frame A, to which :it is secured in any suitable manner, whereby'the face of the body C aligns with that of the said frame A, as shown in Fig. 6. Upon the face of the said frame, immediately above the junction therewith of the upper portion of the body Cy there is painted or otherwise marked thereon the representation of a human head, beneath which thereprojects inwardly or downwardly from said frame an integral extension c, having marked thereon the representation of a collar and necktie, the body C being provided with a registering recess c to receive said extension therein, the same being secured to the flange l) bordering said recess. points upon said frame are marked the representation of shoes and gloves, said frame thereby bearing thereon all the necessary painting or lithographing of whatsoever character employed in my invention, which is appreciably more cheaply and readily applied upon card-board or the like than upon transparent material such as pyrolin.

The body C has marked thereon lines indicating the folds of the garments, which may where desired be printed thereon, though a more impressive and accurate edect is produced by embossing said body at the same points, as shown in Fig. 4.

The operation of the device will be readily understood from the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. The body C being secured in the frame A, and it being desired to exhibit a certain fabric D, said frame is placed upon or held in front of said fabric, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, whereupon the frame Abeiug opaque said fabric is visible through the body C only thereby exhibiting in miniature a person clothed in a suit of garments composed ot' the particular fabric in question.

In Figs. 7 and 8 I haveillustratedl a device comprising a plate or body E formed wholly of transparent material having the head, collar, tie and other appurtenances, and the lines following the folds of the garments, marked thereon with a coating d, of opaque paint, and the outer portions of said body from the outlines of the garments to the edge of said body having thereon a coating e, of opaque paint,v

whereby a proportion of said body E corresponding to the card-board frame A, is rendered impermeable by light; the said coating also extending over the coating d, as shown in Fig. 8, or such portions thereof as represent the head, collar, tie, gloves and shoes, to protect said coating d, and prevent the wear- At suitable IOO ing off thereof from use, and thus showing the fabric through the same.

The cheaper and more durable form of my device is that comprising the frame A and body C which is also equally applicable to fashion plates, samples, and show cards. I do not confine myself to the exact formation of parts herein set forth and illustrated.

Having thus fully described myinvention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l..A cloth-sample exhibitor, comprising a frame or sheet of opaque material, apertnred at the center in conformity with the outlines of a clothed figure, provided with an extension projecting downwardly into the aperture from the top, bearing the representation of a collar and neck-tie thereon, said frame bearing above said extension and at the edges of the aperture thehead a-nd remaining elements of the figure, and the representation of a clothed figure formed of a sheet or body of transparent material, adapted to fit Within the frame and recessed at the top to receive the extension therein to exhibit the collar and tie Within the garments, and a peripheral flange surrounding the figure and depressed beneath the same and secured to the edges ofthe aperture in the frame, to maintain said figure in alignment with the face of the said frame, substantially as shown and described.

2. A cloth-sample exhibitor, comprising the representation of a clothed figure, formed of a sheet or body of transparent material, provided With a peripheral flange thereon, and embossed in conformity with the folds of the garments, and an opaque frame apertured at the center toreceivesaid lign re wholly Within the same and secured to the flange thereof, and bearing thereon at the edges of the aperture the head and remaining,r elements ot' the figure, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention Ihave signed my name, in presonce of two Witnesses, this 10th day of December, 1894.

BENJ. PALLADINO. Witnesses:

PERCY T. GRIFFITH, HANNAH J AooBUs. 

